84: HOW TO GET A FARM, 



are the common lot of humanity. She will also cheer him 

 on in all his successes, looking at the object to be attained 

 on its brightest side, thus proving most conclusively her 

 ability to perform her part in the task they have allotted 

 themselves which, with God s blessing, they will surely ac 

 complish.&quot; 



A writer, under the signature of &quot;A Farmer s 

 Son,&quot; now threw into the common stock of informa 

 tion the following brief summary of a very interest 

 ing personal history : 



&quot;Having read in the Country Gentleman several ways 

 for a young man, desirous of obtaining a livelihood by farm 

 ing, to do, I thought perhaps a few ideas I might suggest 

 would not be out of the way. Although young and inex 

 perienced myself, in the ways of working and by the means 

 of which a farm is obtained, I have often heard my father 

 speak of his experience, some of which I will briefly relate. 

 At fifteen years his mind was fully made up to be a farmer. 

 To that he devoted his energies, and boy though he was, 

 was fully assured that he would have no other vocation. 

 At eighteen he bid adieu to father and mother, and started 

 with nothing but an axe, which was all the kind parent 

 could give, but his blessing, and a piece of bread and 

 cheese from the thoughtful mother. He left the parental 

 homestead, travelled thirty miles, there found employment, 

 and from that day to this never has known want. For the 

 next five years he labored partly by the month, and also by 

 working farms on shares. In those days, when working a 

 farm on shares, you boarded with the family, including 

 washing, and had one-third of the profit. In the next five 

 years he laid up $500 was then married, bought a small 

 farm for $750, paid $250 down, with five years to pay the 

 balance. He worked it eight years, then sold, and was 



